Labor pledges better indigenous work plan

Labor has promised to abolish a controversial work-for-the dole scheme meant to help indigenous people in remote Australia if it wins the next federal election.

A Shorten government would scrap the Community Development Program and replace it, as part of the ALP's new Reconciliation Action Plan unveiled at its national conference in Adelaide on Monday.

"This Reconciliation Action Plan sets out a significant and powerful challenge for the party. It will be to fully and completely make this party the party of choice for First Nations people," Labor's assistant indigenous affairs spokesman Pat Dodson told delegates.